Limonene

joined 2 years ago
[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

"Refrigerator Wifi Firmware"

3 words, but my job is still bullshit.

[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hell no. I want to be unable to use that emoji for at least a year, preferably a lifetime.

(The Unicode consortium betrayed us, and themselves, by putting emoji in Unicode.)

[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

You can butt-stuff-shame people who would have condemned others for doing butt stuff.

[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel like we should be normalizing $1, $2, and $5 coins at this point. I know $1 coins exist, but nobody uses them. If I drop a $1 coin in a tip jar, people say sarcastically "thanks, that 25 cents will go a long way" because they think it's a quarter.

[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Abolishing the USD cent comes way too late.

Was abolishing the half penny in 1857 a good idea? If so, then abolishing the quarter would be a good idea today. It has about as much buying power as the half penny did in 1857.

[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see loss, I downvote.

[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

If any cops or cop apologists wanna disagree with this: show me a good cop who arrested an ICE. Because ICE is breaking the law, and as far as I can tell, nobody's arresting them.

[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

They used to use analog computers to solve differential equations, back when every transistor was expensive (relays and tubes even more so) and clock rates were measured in kilohertz. There's no practical purpose for them now.

In cases of number theory, and RSA cryptography, you need even more precision. They combine multiple integers together to get 4096-bit precision.

If you're asking about the 24-bit ADC, I think that's usually high-end audio recording.

[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can I go into exile?

[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The maximum theoretical precision of an analog computer is limited by the charge of an electron, 10^-19 coulombs. A normal analog computer runs at a few milliamps, for a second max. So a max theoretical precision of 10^16, or 53 bits. This is the same as a double precision (64-bit) float. I believe 80-bit floats are standard in desktop computers.

In practice, just getting a good 24-bit ADC is expensive, and 12-bit or 16-bit ADCs are way more common. Analog computers aren't solving anything that can't be done faster by digitally simulating an analog computer.

[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Better dead than in a concentration camp. If they assault someone violently, it's more likely to turn heads (especially if they're a US citizen. For some reason.)

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